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riskassessment, etc ; air; altitude; dust; dust mites; females; risk; winter; China; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Air pollutants can potentially lead to nitration of allergic proteins, thus promoting sensitization of these allergens. However, little is currently known about the nitration status of house dust mite (HDM) allergens. We identified the occurrence of nitrated products of two major HDM allergens Der f 1 and Der p 1 in dust samples collected from college dormitories in eastern China and assessed thei ...
riskassessment, etc ; chlorophyll; coastal water; fluoroquinolones; mariculture; pollution; rivers; salinity; selection pressure; total nitrogen; China; Yellow Sea; Show all 12 Subjects
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... The pollution of antibiotics commonly existed throughout the entire aquaculture process, but the residues of antibiotics at different aquaculture stages have rarely been studied. This study investigated the occurrence, distribution and risk assessment of antibiotics at different aquaculture stages (the non-aquaculture stage, the early aquaculture stage, the middle aquaculture stage, and the late a ...
riskassessment, etc ; chlorophyll; lakes; macrophytes; microcystins; nitrates; nitrogen; orthophosphates; phosphorus; phytoplankton; pollution; public health; risk; sediments; total nitrogen; total organic carbon; total phosphorus; water management; China; Show all 19 Subjects
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... Understanding the history of microcystins (MCs) pollution in large lakes can help inform future lake management. We collected sediment cores from Lake Taihu to: investigate the long-term record of MCs (MC-LR, MC-YR, and MC-RR), explore the main environmental drivers of MCs, and assess their public health and ecological risks. Results showed that MCs content in all cores increased over time. The co ...
... Landslides are among the most widespread and frequent natural hazards that lead to fatalities, socioeconomic losses, and property damage globally [...] ...
... Rainfall-induced surge waves in rivers are still today considered as an elusive and non-realistic phenomenon that has continued to mystify researchers and practitioners alike since the kinematic shock theory introduced in 1955. This is mainly due to scarce sightings of real cases, as well as physical and numerical uncertainties and sporadic calculations. In order to overcome such indefiniteness, a ...
... The spatial variability of the aquifers' hydraulic properties can be satisfactorily described by means of scaling laws. The latter enable one to relate the small (typically laboratory) scale to the larger (typically formation/regional) ones, therefore leading de facto to an upscaling procedure. In the present study, we are concerned with the spatial variability of the hydraulic conductivity K into ...
qualitative riskassessment; quantitative riskassessment, etc ; cluster analysis; disaster preparedness; drainage; rain damage; risk; rivers; water; South Korea; Show all 10 Subjects
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... For risk assessment, two methods, quantitative risk assessment and qualitative risk assessment, are used. In this study, we identified the regional risk level for a disaster-prevention plan for an overall area at the national level using qualitative risk assessment. To overcome the limitations of previous studies, a heavy rain damage risk index (HDRI) was proposed by clarifying the framework and u ...
riskassessment, etc ; research; variance; watersheds; China; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The Lowest navigable water level (LNWL) is an important indicator used for navigation design to balance the relationship between navigation safety and economic benefits of a waterway. However, it is a challenge of accurately estimating LNWLs due to the nonstationary characteristics of observed water level data series. In this study, a comprehensive framework was developed for handling this issue. ...
... In the international oil trade network, trade shocks triggered by extreme events may spread over the entire network through trade links and even lead to the collapse of the whole system. To investigate the robustness of the international oil trade network under targeted attacks (i.e. shocks) to economies, we focus on the concept of “too central to fail”. The results of the centrality measurement o ...
riskassessment, etc ; hydrometeorology; prediction; temperature; Central Asia; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Hydrometeorological extreme value analysis (EVA) is complicated with multiple-uncertain methodological choices, such as extreme event sampling (EES), stationary/non-stationary assumption (SNA), and parameter estimation (PE). In this study, a factorial extreme value analysis (FEVA) method is developed through integrating four EESs, four SNAs and two PEs into a mixed-level factorial experiment frame ...
riskassessment, etc ; aquatic organisms; chemistry; drought; ethics; Show all 5 Subjects
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... In the natural environment, animals can face potentially dangerous and often regular exposure to major environmental fluctuations such as flash flooding and drought, or the approach of a predator. For many aquatic species, exposure to these ecological disturbances triggers the release of “disturbance cues” – generally characterized as chemicals released when animals are startled but not injured. W ...
riskassessment, etc ; behavior modification; dogs; population growth; Show all 4 Subjects
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... In this review, we challenge the perception that behavioral incompatibilities are an important factor driving relinquishment of dogs to shelters. This belief dates at least to the 1970’s, when, in response to pet overpopulation, shelters and researchers began to collect reasons for relinquishment. We review studies on reported reasons for relinquishment, the prevalence of corresponding behaviors a ...
comparative riskassessment; riskassessment process, etc ; air pollution; death; environment; green infrastructure; health effects assessments; heat; mortality; residential areas; temperature; traffic; Brazil; Show all 13 Subjects
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... Currently, more than half of the global population lives in cities. Contemporary urban planning practices result in environmental risk factors (e.g. air pollution, noise, lack of green space, excess heat) that put health and well-being of city dwellers at risk and contribute to chronic diseases and premature death. Despite a growing body of evidence on adverse health impacts related to current urb ...
riskassessment, etc ; neural networks; prediction; research and development; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Because of the complex internal porous structures, the reconstruction of porous media has encountered many difficulties in practical research and development. At present, numerical simulation methods are widely used in the field of reconstructing porous media, which can reconstruct results similar to the true pore structure, but generally are CPU-intensive and time-consuming. Recently, with the ra ...
riskassessment, etc ; databases; geology; humans; liquefaction; regression analysis; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Tailings dams are commonly built incrementally to increase the storage capacity of the Tailings Storage Facility (TSF), usually without interrupting the mining activities. Dam management practices, lack of knowledge on tailings behaviour and the poor performance of monitoring and management processes have resulted in disastrous tailings dam failures with human and economic losses, as well as huge ...
riskassessment, etc ; bioavailability; intestines; research; rice; risk; China; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Rice and rice products are the main sources of Cd contamination in humans. The total and bioaccessible concentrations of Cd and three divalent nutrients, Mn, Cu, and Zn, in locally grown rice grains from Hunan and Guangdong Provinces in China were investigated. An in vitro physiologically based extraction test method was introduced to evaluate the bioaccessibility of the target metals in the rice ...
riskassessment, etc ; arthropods; public health; public safety; transgenes; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Responsible conduct of research is a cornerstone of rigorous scientific discovery. Institutional committees, independent advisory panels, and expert steering groups are among the frameworks in academia meant to provide guidance and assurances that research activities do not result in harm to the environment, research staff, or public safety. For research involving arthropods of public health impor ...
riskassessment, etc ; Adequate Intakes; rice; risk; selenium; China; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Selenium-rich rice samples of 52 brands were bought from supermarkets on line in China and analysed for Se with ICP-MS. The Se concentration of Se-rich rice in China ranged from 0.012 ± 0.001 to 0.558 ± 0.057 mg/kg with an average of 0.090 ± 0.092 mg/kg. Rice samples with Se concentrations below 0.04 mg/kg accounted for 36.5% of the total samples. Se concentrations between 0.04 and 0.3 mg/kg accou ...
riskassessment, etc ; climate; confidence interval; models; research; uncertainty; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Generalized likelihood uncertainty estimate (GLUE) approach is affected heavily by the choice of cut-off threshold (Tr) and likelihood measure. This work presents a research on investigating potential mechanisms behind the impacts of Tr and likelihood measure on 95% confidence interval estimated by GLUE (95 CI). Several typical likelihood measures are classified into five groups according to error ...
riskassessment, etc ; bioavailability; carbonates; drainage; mineralization; risk; toxicity; Iran; Show all 8 Subjects
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... The behavior, bioavailability and toxicity of heavy metals in soil essentially relies on their chemical spices. This paper attempts to quantify the heavy metals spices bound to various soil fractions at five sampling stations (S1–S5) from the Doustbaglu area, NW Iran, to ascertain their bioavailability, using sequential extraction. The results revealed that more than 90% of Cr and Cu were retained ...